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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness, contentment

If a tenant attempts to replace the washer in a faucet, plan on replacing the faucet; perhaps all the plumbing in the building.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate, tenants

There shall be torrential down-pours as you attempt to get to your car; once inside the car, the sky is blue, the birds are chirping and there's a rainbow on the horizon.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, sky, contentment

My family was killed in the Great War that has lasted for millions of years, my city got burned down, Decepticons ripped me to pieces, Unicron attempted to eat my home world, and all I got was this stinking Autobot sigil burned onto my chest.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about city, family, home, war, world

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about man

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Quote by Walter Pater about christianity, old, religion

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about power

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Quote by André Breton about rules, life

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Quote by Thomas Moore about plot, destruction

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about wish, happiness

Man is created from inferno and paradise, from body and soul, from dust and Divine Light, and any attempt to create a man without body or without of soul, will dehumanize the man. The paradise and inferno

Quote by Sorin Cerin about people, paradise, body, soul, man, light